Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Second Edition

Techniques to access Application Settings

In every application, you will have at least a few configuration items that you might not want to hardcode. Instead, you want them to change in the future, after the application goes live, without touching the code. 

In general, I would classify configuration items into two categories:

• Some configuration items might be different across environments, for example, the connection strings of the database and SMTP server
• Some might be the same across environments, such as some constant numbers that are used in code calculations

Whatever configuration values are used for, you need to have a place to store them that is accessible to your application. 

In this recipe, we will learn how and where to store ...